Russia to Fly Bombers to U.S. Gulf as Ukraine Escalates
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Russia plans to extend long-range bomber patrols as far as the Gulf of Mexico and the eastern Pacific Ocean, its defense minister said, as NATO accused Vladimir Putin’s government of sending more troops into Ukraine.
With Ukraine warning its conflict is close to returning to open war, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu said his country’s military will start conducting regular long-range bomber patrols along Russia’s borders and over the Arctic Ocean. His ministry rejected an assertion from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization’s top general that it was moving combat troops and heavy weapons into Ukraine’s rebel-held east.